Friday Conference (New Time): Chronic Neurological Sequelae of HIV in Latin America and in the U.S.

Monica Diaz, MD, MS, is an assistant professor in the department of neurology. Dr. Diaz completed a neurology residency at Yale University and a fellowship in neurological infections and neuroimmunology at University of California, San Diego and then an NIH Fogarty Global Health fellowship in Lima, Peru. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Diaz’s research interests include cognitive impairment in people living with HIV or following COVID-19 infection, particularly in Latin America and among Latinos living in the U.S., and the burden of Alzheimer’s dementia and related diseases in international settings. She leads several studies, funded by the NIH and Alzheimer’s Association, on HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders in older Peruvians with HIV, epidemiology of dementia in older community-dwelling Peruvians and epidemiology of dementia and frailty in rural eastern Uganda.